Hate to add a post that is simply "me too," but Andrew is 100% correct. I would add that there are also timbres that are absolutely dissonant -- although clearly there's a tremendous amount of cultural variability there as well.

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On 04 Feb 2005, at 2:41 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:

I would agree that there is no hard-and-fast natural boundary between the dissonant and the consonant, and that culture plays a big role in drawing such arbitrary boundaries. However, I would think that anyone, ever, from anywhere, would agree that a minor second is much more dissonant than a perfect fifth, and that those two extreme intervals are absolutely dissonant and absolutely consonant respectively, and without regard to musical context.
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Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press

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